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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
AMUsE ENT NOTES.

The members of the Minneapolis gymna-
SUM, under the management OF Prof. Z. s.
Duplessis, give an athletic exhibition at the
Grand this evening.
Marie Wellesley, the popular actress VINO
made such q favorite impression at the Pence
opera house, will be the opening attraction at
the new Peoples theater.
Thine aud the Hour; or, Woman's De-
yotion," was greeted by large audience AT
the Pence opera house last evening. The
play will run up to and including Wednesday
evening.
The Comique has this week the best show it
has played for months. AL Fields United
Operate Minstrels and English Comique com
pany contains many comlnendable features
and very few poor ones The company
opened to a large house last night and will
continue through the week.
The Devils Auction spectacular com
pany opens an engagement at the Grand
opera house the evening of May 8. The rlay
is somewhat similar to the "Black Crook III
many respects. and superior in some. Since
the first production it has had Il heavy run.
This will DO its first introduction in the
Northwest.
The excitement caused yesterday by the
management of the dime museum lifting Big
Winnie, the mammoth woman, into the es.
adjustment by means OF Il derrick was in
creased yesterday evening when she was eX-
hibited in her evening costume. Thousands
visited the museum yesterday, and she was
the cynOsure of hundreds of sightseers. Big
Winnie is big indeed. She is said to weigh LOCO
pounds and fully looks it. She is colored
woman, whose age might be guessed ut 60.
She occupies an immense arm chair in the
center of the building and rests her huge
hands on the sides of the chair She is the
biggest woman ever exhibited here. The
theater departments have new and varied
comedy and specially bills, and the whole is
worthy of visit.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
ALL AOR rs.

| Mayor Ames yesterday addressed letter
| to President Cleveland, inviting and urging
him TO visit Minneapolis while on his pro-
| posed Western tour The mayor especially
urged him to be present during the EXPOSE
| tion season, and couched his letter in terms
that the president will find difficult to decline.
Minneapolis has been exempted from dread
| full crimes for Il long space of time, but it
| found one yesterday of unusual bloodiness
F! and brutality.
| City Clerk Cornmau has developed an aes-
| thetic taste in his official capacity. The new
| dog tax badges are of acorn design and were
being served out with great rapidity yester-
| day.
| The government will have to employ an
| army of workers when the new postoffice
| building is completed to scrub up the stone
| The contrast between the new and old work
| is most painful.
| 1t is said that Col. NJ. W. Glenn the other
| evening expressed the warmest admiration
for Loren Fletcher, and announced his inten-
| ton of supporting him in any candidacy in
which he might engage.
| Yesterday afternoon a short, stouty built
| colored youth dressed in the height of
| fashion, with glossy tile and standing collar,
walked down Washington avenue His face
| was pulled out in spots, his thick lips had a
| purple tinge and his eyes a very uncertain
glare. Every coon he passed turned to look
at him and noticed his air of triumph 1t
| was the Black Pearl.
|
| cient and honorable game OF draughts, he has
| no use for Charles F. Barker. Truax beat
| Barnes worse then Barker did, yet Truax is
decidedly shy of Barker. Now why should
| this be so?
| Judge Mahoney and Court Reporter New
| love unconsciously furnished new sensation
the other morning. That is, it was a seusa-
| ton for Il short time. During a. trial in the
| police court Mr.. Newlove found that he would
have to use his typewriter, aud informed the
| judge. The judge called the sergeant and
| one of the officers and asked them to go to
Temple court as soon as possible and procure
! the instrument The two officers left the
| court room hurriedly, and in few moments
had the patrol wagon going rapidly up the
street. Stopping in front of the Temple
court the officers rushed in, as though 'steen
murders had been committed. A dense crowd
| gathered, and then some wag started the re-
| port man had just been killed in one of the
| offices. BY the time the two officers had
secured the typewriter and came down stairs
| again the sidewalk was packed. A reporter
| for afternoon paper was present and
| secured stand near the wagon. When the
| crowd saw what it was that the officers had
they began to walk slowly away, and one man
remarked as he went: u knew it was nothing
all the time, and only stood here to see the
rest disappointed
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
OrDhan
RAILROAD NEWS.
sioux city & 81. Paul.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-The secretary of
the interior, sitting with Assistant Attor-
ney General Montgomery, to-day heard ar
guments on behalf of the Sioux City & st.
Paul railroad in opposition to the recon-
mendation of the commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office that the government accept
26, 600 acres of land in Woodbury., Plymouth
and Sioux countless i'm the state of Iowa,
which had been patented to the state for the
benefit of the Sioux City ~ st. Paul Rail-
road company. and reconyeyed to the gov
eminent by the governor of Iowa in pur-
suance of an act of the Iowa legature, APP
proved March 27, 1884. A prior act of the
Iowa legislature declares that these lands
have not been earned by the company under
the terms of the granting act, and should
therefore be reconveyed to the government,
which was subsequently done. The rail
road company held that these lands, as
part of the grant, have been earned, and
that In any event the secretary of the inte-
rior has no legal right to accept recon-
veyance of the same; that this can be done
only by decree of a court in chancery.
One of the important questions involved in
this case, and one which has never been
passed upon by the department.. is whether
a railroad company is entitled to indemnity
for lands lost to it by reason of an overlap
ping grant made for the benefit of another
company by the same act. In this case the
lands for which indemnity is claimed lie
between the two roads, which, by their in
tersection, form the sides of an acute angle.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
MlNNEAPOLISR REAL ESTATE.

The following real estate transfers were 70.
corded Yesterday
Lit s, blk 2 Jackson add; Andrew Golden to
Richard Jervis s., 600
1t 10, blk s. Forest Heights add; Joseph Fl
Bronlllette to G Broniiiette ,.......... 5000
1t 5, blk 10, shnson's add p Mcmillan to
Mary Gay '..'.'.,..:..:... $500. l,S00
It52, blk H. -. Forest Heights add; Kate
steher to Tim Dunlop. -. ;.:........... $500
LIT ., blk s. Bakers add Ludwig Arctander
t. Kortgaard. ...................... $500
1t II, Warnock Lotions subd, George II
Rust to Charles Bergstro ON m..;...:.;:.. 1850
Lit II, blk 2, Howard add; Charles Robin
SON to e Merritt; 49,; 10000
1t ii, blk 2, Howards add; James Merritt
to Chas Robinson ;,..:;:...:...;:..;;:.. 10000
1t 8, blk 10. Atwaters add; Amelia Bos-
worth to The Northern Realty company. 1850
Blk I, Davisons Second add Geo Kneis-
ley to Jacob siSshe.mer; RI, .;...;":;..;.. $500
hlA :, D" " W'oi 1eroiN "uo 9"rah Iaylor
TO Geo kneisiey' :.........:......... -. 1887
Land IN sec -, town 49, range 20; Gil Peck
70 o. -. $500
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
ADDITIONAL MINNEAPOLIS NEWS.
SAYINGS OF MEN

Col. c. w. Johnson-By the time the new
postoffice is completed Minneapolis will re-
quire and demand much larger and finer
one-and will get it, too. A 81, 000 600 structure
would be about right.
Mayor Ames-Senator Davis assured me
the other day in st. Paul that any newspaper
report which said he abused me during the
last campaign was false. He said that he
had made a campaign that he could always
look back upon without regret.
William L. Sterling-The new Peoples
theater will be built with Il special view to
meeting the demand for a standard place of
amusement at reasonable rates.
Selah Mathews-Reports of council COM
mittees are not turned in in that careful
shape and wording that they might be.
Rev. f. r. Millspaugh-Asa minister of the
gospel Can scarcely commend the sermons
of the two Reverend Samuels.
County Attorney Davis-The grand jury
evidently did not confine its work to Mime
apolis as three OsseO men were arrested to-
day on indictments charging them with SELL
ing liquor on Sunday.
Sheriff Observation-Disclosures personal tax
payers are slowly coming to the front
A Man Who Put on HIS Underwear Sunday
morning-NO man in Minnesota should go
down town without rubber coat, buffalo
overcoat, a linen buster, u pair of rubber
boots and a summer suit. He is liable to
need them all before he goes home IN the
evening.
A Real Estate Man-At no time do 1 re-
member seeing such rush for houses. and
especially small ones OF from four to seven
rooms. 1t must be that more people are get
ting married this spring than in previous
years.
Col. F. p. Weadon-You may think it was
fun TO get big Winnie into the museum
but can assure you that many such expert
ences would cause my hair to turn gray.
An Attorney-About one-half of the cases
that come into the district court should never
be taken there,as it is not the place for them.
+. f. Davis--The practice OF carrying a re-
volver is an abominable one, and the older
grow the more become Disguised with it.
| never have had need of Il weapon but once
in my life. Then was stopped late at night
by a big, burly fellow. Grasping the cane /
carried told him that | would break his
head II he came any nearer. He looked at
me- then at the cane, and departed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
Chips From the Ties.

The Omaha has issued O general tariff be-
tween st. Paul and Yankton and other points
on the 1roquois branch of the Chicago &
Northwestern road; also a general tariff be-
tween st. Paul and Green Bay and other sta
lions on the Green Bay, WinOna 4 ST. Paul
road; also a new tariff on all commodities
east and west bound between St. Paul and
ali Pacific coast points at considerably lower
rates than were in force prior to the suspen-
sion of the long and short haul clause.
A party of twenty families went West yes
terday on the Northern Pacific TO join the
New England company organized to locate in
Hittenger county, in North Dakota. These
people are from Maine and Ver-
mont. This is the pioneer party
of large and important colony
that is being made up from New England, and
it promises to become one OF the largest COL
onies located in this part of the territory.
Brayton Ives, OF New York, one of the
directors of the Northern Pacific, will leave
to day in company with Mr.. Thrall, private
secretary of Mr.. Oakes, for Il trip of inspec-
ton over the whole length of the road. Mr..
cakes, OF the same road, goes to Chicago this
afternoon and will meet Mr.. Brayton and Mr.
Thrall on the 10th and go with them over the
road.
A party of fifteen families of German
Russians are going from Southern Dakota to
join the New Salem colony in Morton county,
North Dakota. They take long six car loads
Cakes and the James River Valley branch Of
the Northern Pacific road.
A party in the employ of the Northern
Pacific is at work making a survey for the
extension of the Fargo & Southwestern from
La Moure to Edgeley.
A convention for the furtherance of the
| construction of the Wi1ona e. Southwestern
road is to be held at Winona on Friday. Nav 6.
Mr.. Hanley, of the Minnesota & North
western, has gone to Chicago 10 attend the
meeting to fix rates for Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota. 10
j. A. Macgregor, stock agent of the Mime
sofa Northwestern, has just returned from
the cattle ranges of Montana.
Howard Morris, assistant solicitor of the
wisconsin Central, is in ST. Paul
Mr.. Boyden, of the Milwaukee s. st. Paul.
has gone to Chicago.
Mr.. MAXWELL of the Manitoba, has return ed
from the East
F. B. Clarke has gone to Chicago.
Mr.. Fee. of the Northern Pacific, is home.
Mr.. Odell is expected home to-day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
STRAY SUNBEAMS.

1t is wise provision that the marriage re-
atoms of this world are not to be recognized
in the next. Otherwise the late Dr. ANDREW
JACKSON GRANT, who died in Cambridge,
Mass, last week, would have an Interestingly
complicated time with his thirty wives who
had preceded him to the spirit world. Dr.
GRANT was gay old beau who made d bust
ness of marrying for revenue only.
His method was to resort to the seashore
and other summer resorts where mothers are
accustomed to congregate with their mar
riageable daughters. DR.. GRANT had address
enough to please the average woman and i'm
pudence enough to court any woman that
was courtable. The dread of dying old maids
impelled thirty different spinsters to marry
the adventurer in haste and to repent of their
folly in leisure.
-
The gay old deceiver got along with admir-
able success until he roped in his last victim,
who happened to be an Omaha woman. The
gay old deceivers matrimonial operations had
previously been confined to Eastern women,
whose delicate constitutions soon gave way
under the sore grief and disappointment
when they found they had been duped But
a Nebraska woman's nature is not made of
such tender stuff. When his Omaha wife
found that she had been victimized, accord
ing to the Omaha custom In such cases made
and provided, she snatched the old duffer
bald-headed and then had him imprisoned on
the charge of being professional swindler
He died in the Cambridge jail last Monday,
and his Omaha widow refused to put up for
the burial expenses.
~
The new Chinese coin street car tickets are
not popular. The complaint against them is
that they are ugly, too heavy and wear out
the pockets. Their unpopularity was in
creased yesterday when a lady on the st. An
thony nill line dropped a SIS gold piece into
the box in mistake for one OF them. 1t is a
risky business carrying So gold pieces aud the
new street car tickets in the pocket at the
same time.
1t is suggested that there ought to be at
change in the street car rates. Five cents is
a reasonable price for seat, but when it
comes to riding on the swinging straps or
being carried on the platform as ballast there
ought to be reduction. Emigrant passage
ought to be charged for at emigrant rates.
~
The great BERNHARDT is here. 1t is the
old, old story. She came. she saw, she con-
quered. by the power of her genius laid her
audience at her feet. Although not one in
forty understood word she said, everybody
felt the magnetism of her dramatic genius
Her acting is the interpreter of her speech
~
People who paid S3 to hear Bernhardt and
didn't think they got their moneys worth
will feel better compensated after reading
the GLOBES criticism on the play this morn
ing. For the benefit of those who are not
familiar with the French dialect we will say
that the English of the criticism is--"Bern-
hardt is daisy. A little wilted, but daisy.
nevertheless"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
OF INTEREST TO BANKERS.
A Decision Regarding the Proper
Assessment of Shares.
The Public Debt Was Reduced S13,-
100000 During Last Month.

WASHINGTON, MAY "A decision wa
! rendered by the supreme court of the
United States to-day in the bank tax case
of Hattie Stanley, executrix, plaintiff in
error, against the board of supervisors of
A lbany, N. Y. The original plaintiff in
this case, Edward N. Stanley, was citi-
zen of Illinois, and claims to be the
assignee of certain sharehol ders
of the National Albany Exchan ge
bank. He brought suit to re-
cover certain taxes alleged to
have been Illegally collected upon shares in
the bank during the years from 1874 to
1879 inclusive and paid into the treasury of
the county of Albany. He complained that
the assessors, by rule prescribed by them
selves, assessed the shares of the National
Albany Exchange bank at Il higher rate
than stock in other banks situated in the
same city. The rule adopted by the as
SCISSORS was to assess all shares of stock in
state and national banks in the city Of
Albany at pal, irrespective of the actual or
market value, making the requisite reduc-
ton for real estate owned by the banks.
THE PLAINTIFF MAINTAINED 90.
that this rule necessarily resulted in impos-
ing Oh the shares of the National Albany
Exchange bank greater rate of taxation
than was assessed upon other capital gener-
ally, because the actual value of shares of
stock IN the National Albany Exchange bank
was considerably less than the stock of
most of the other banks in the city. This
court holds that the method of assessment
complained of is applied to all banks, ma
tional and state, and comes as near as prac-
tcable, considering the nature of the prop
erty, to securing. as between them, uni
formity and equality of tax. 1t cannot be
considered as discriminating against either.
In no respect can it be regarded
as adopted in hostility to the national
banks. 1t must sometimes place the esti-
mated value OF their shares below their real
value; but such result is not one of which
the holders of national bank shares can
complain. The courts cannot take on them
selves the functions of a revising or
equalizing board. In nearly all
the states provision is made
by law for the correction of errors and IT,
Irregularities of assessors through special
boards of revision. To these boards of re-
vision the citizen must apply for relief
against excessive and irregular taxation.
The Judgment of the court below is affirmed.
Opinion by Justice Field.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
HOW ENGLISH IS TAUGHT.

MARK TWAIN'S amusing article in the
April number of the Century, on "English
as She Is Taught" will probably serve
good purpose in not only directing attention
to the inconsistencies and incongruities of
our mother tongue, but it will also result in
directing attention to the many foolish
methods embraced in our system of teach
ing it. No thoughtful reader can read Mr..
CLEMENS humorous article without being
impressed with feeling of dismay at the
lack of thoroughneSs in our system of pub
lie instruction. 1t is all the result of that
spirit which characterizes this age, of at
tempting to do too much within limited
time. AS e people, we are too ambitious
and not methodical enough. Whatever de-
fleets we discover in our educational system
at the first blush we are disposed to lay the
blame at the doors of the teach
ers. But upon more mature refec-
tion we discover that the fault lies
back of Indifferent teachers. There are in
stances, and they are more numerous than
they ought to be, of Indifferent teachers.
But the teachers are not responsible for the
conditions which surround them. AS the
Os
the one great trouble with our educational
system is that it is being laced to death
with system. That is, the school teacher
is too much hampered by legislative enact
mentS and by school board instructions. In
our attempt to systematic the school sys-
TEN we have crushed the individuality out
of the teacher. He is hand-tied and tongue
tied by the cast-iron rules which are i'm
posed upon him. Instead of giving him
opportunity for developing freshness of
method and organization, we have simply
reduced the teacher to the condition of an
automatic machine to do the work of brain
examining, which the law and the feveriSh
spirit of the age require to be done.
The results of this examining edu-
cational process are humorously pre-
sented by Mr.. CLEMENS, and yet through
all his inimitable humor can be seen a faith
full and sorrowful portraiture of the defects
of our educational system. His string of
humor is made up from the examination
papers taken from great many different
schools and evolve from great many differ
ent brains, and yet they are so alike in charac-
ter the whole of them might be mistaken for
the work OF one school boy, who has been
rushed through his studies so rapidly that
his puzzled, overworked brain hasn't had
the chance to gain an intelligent impression
of what he has been doing. When exam
ination day comes around, in addition to
the little smattering information he has
been able to pick up on the run as he has
been compelled to rush atfull speed through
the fields of knowledge, he is forced to rely
upon his own natural instincts and ideas in
constructing answers to the food of aues-
tons which are poured in upon him.
For instance, when he asked the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
vi Il MORTAL. DAY.
Orders From the Head of the HEinne-
sofa Department for Its ObserV-

Orders From the Head of the Mime
sofa department for Its Observ-
ance.
General Orders No. have been issued by
Department Commander l.. l.. Wheelock,
of the Minnesota G. A. r., calling attention
of old veterans, sons of veterans and
Woman's Relief corps to the order of Ma
tional Commander Fairchild for Memorial
day. 1t is sent out with the national order, and
urges upon all veterans to closely observe
the occasion by attending memorial services
on the Sunday Immediately preceding
Memorial day, and by turning out willingly
to do homage to the dead heroes by deco
rating their honored graves. 1t continues:
The Womans Relief corps and the Sons of
Veterans will render efficient aid if properly
invited, and the department commander
hopes that these auXilaries will continue this
sacred and beautiful custom long after we
shall have been mustered out.
So long as we remain the post of duty and
of honor will be given to the G. A. X. Let us
leave it in worthy hands when we are gone.
Let us, in the solemn presence OF the heroic
dead, renew our devotion to the country they
died to save; to the principles Of our order;
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
HE DRANK AND DIED.
Sudden Death of Man at Little Palla
Immediately After Taking
Drink.
Reports Coming in Relative to Damage
Done by the Big Shower of
Sunday.
Considerable Damage Done at Vari-
Gus Points by Hail, Wind
and snow.
frInceton's Narrow Escape From a
Big Fire--Mr. ScobeIl VIII
Recover.

LITTLE FALLS, May 2.-Rercules Hende,
a brother of Leon Hende, of this city, ar
rived here from Turtle mountain at o'clock
this morning. He went to the Little Falls
house, called for drink sat down in
chair and in ten minutes was dead. The
coroners jury determined that his death
was caused by heart disease. Deceased
was about so years old. and leaves q family
at Winnipeg. where his remains will be
sent
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03

ing the child was perfectly well. Yesterday
morning he received telegram announcing
the child's DEATH The body Will be brought
to this city.
VIM. Mutt died suddenly yesterday at the
advanced age of 10 years, at the residence of
his daughter. Mrs. f. Perkins, at Single
Creek. Mr.. Nuts death was caused by old
age He was born Mt Camden, Maine. in 1870,
and was veteran of the war OF 1917. His
wife died Ave years ago at the age of 81,
they having been married seventy years
Mr.. Mutt was bright old man, retaining his
faculties to the last. The funeral will be
held from Single Creek NJ. E. church to-mor-
row, Wednesday, at two o clock p. IN. Friends
of the family are requested to attend.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
METEOROLOGICAL.

James Grover, infant son of Walter Boote
died yesterday. Funeral this afternoon ut .
o'clock from the family residence, 1913 South
Eighteenth street.
belmont H. Gibbons son of B. q. Gibbons,
died yesterday at Dawson, Dak., aged year and
9 months. Mrs. Gibbons had taken her little
boy to Dawson on q visit, and on Saturday
har husband received letter from her say